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Operation PBSuccess seems like a perfect way to terrorize a small country. That and a blockade, too.

I with there were more on how the PGT was going to get and what they were going to do with the arms if the Alfham Incident had gone right.

The footnote about anxiety at the revelations of the US plot by the brave revelation of information provided by a double agent by Arbenz at the end of chapter 11 made my stomach sink like a stone.

Operation Fortune sounds like most the harebrained half-baked crap that comes out of the powers that be. Also, don't think I was aware that Bedel Smith was Ike's #2 at State.

The only Catholic Church official who didn't foam at the mouth at Arbenz was the papal nuncio.

Arbenz comes off has a good and shrewd leader so far.

Arbenz seems like a good leader.

Damn, did every US official think everyone else in the world was a communist?????

Instability and mystery assassinations.

“Spiritual Socialism” is as effective as it sounds…

Gleijeses is such a wonderful writer.